(1296 quotes found)
“What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i”
Louis L'Amour
“I'm Fascinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something there that is more than meets the eye.”
Calista Flockhart
“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.”
Pierre Bonnard
“First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.”
William Hazlitt
“Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.”
Charles Baudelaire
“I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.”
Bob Dylan
“A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color”
William Bolitho
“Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.”
Cesare Pavese
“If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice”
Albert Einstein
